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HENRY W. BLACK, or cEoILToN, MARYLAND, AssIeNon-ro HIMSELF AND f EVAN T. EVANS', 4or MIDDLETOWN, DEL-AWARE,

LezerslnnrNa 105,629, @metv July 26, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRTJ'NING-SHEARS; I

The Schedule refrtedto in' these Letters Patent and makig'part of the same.

To all whom it nifty concern :ne` it, known una HENRY W. BLACK, of eeenton, Cecil county, vin the State of Maryland, have invented an'lmproved Pruning-Hook or Knife; and I dohereby declare Vthat the following isafulhclear,

` andeicact ldescription of the construction and operaton of the same, reference being had to the accom'- pauyingdiawi'ng, making apartlof this specification,

kin which-#'- y Figure 1'is a fron-t elevation,-I and 2 Figure 2 i's` a side elevation. I

j Like lletters in Vthetwo figures of the drawing indicatelike parts ofthe invention.

l Nature.

' My invention consists cfaV double setof pivoted levers, attached to a movable cutter, so as to act in conjunction 4with each other in. propelling the movable 'cutter-ina straight line, in combination with aeurvedI cutter or pruning-hook, thusgreatly augmenting the cutting-poweryfgvhicb, bythe arrangement ofthe levers, increases'as the cuttersapproach the largest part of; the limb, andat thepoint where the greatest cutting-force is required, i I

, A is amovable cutter, provided with shank-B, having an elongated slot, 11, audiguide-jaws O.-

` D D are two levers of equal length, oneend of each `being attached, by a pivot 'or bolt, to the n uwableeut-v ter A', and the other end, bya'similar; bolt, to the levers E' E,`which. are elongations of handles 11 F, which are4 shaped so as to cross each` other, and are Asecured together` byfand, work mime PwC-Hunt ds Ashown in o. 1.

G is a curved knife or pruning-hook, provided with a sliank, H, the lower end of which is provided with a brace-plate orl jaw, hi, and is` secured to the handles by the pvot-bolt''al, 'which i passes through it and plate h, as seen iu iig. .2l f

K is a bolt, provided with flanges e e, and extending through slot b and shank H, to which it qis properly secured, as seen inboth the figures of the drawing, flanges e e extending over the shank B, forming the outside bearings andsupports by'which it is held in Opening the .handles draws thhecut-ter A back and opens the cutters, ready to be placed over the limb,

as shown :in iig. 1, and the closingv of the handles forces the cutter A up againstone side of the limb, while by thesame force the edge of hook G is caused to'enter the other side, thus cutting the limb on both sides at once, the cutting-torce increasing as the handles approach each othe r, and as the levers approach a straight line, andis greatly augmented by the combination of the two. sets of levers acting-in conjunc tion, instead of one lever;- l

The dotted lines in lig. 1 represent the position of the levers and handles when the cut-ters are pressed together sufficiently to ventirely sever. the limb, and,

if preferred, the slopeof the edge ofeutter-A'may be* reversed, as 'shown also by dotted lines inA iig; 1, so that the limb, in beingl eut olf, may be pressed back toward therbend of 'hook G, instead of being' pressed toward the point 'of the hook, as 'will be'tbe case when made according to the model.

The double levers D D and E E, as arranged to act .in conjunction, in combination with a sliding cutter,

A, hook G, and shank H, substantially as described. In attestation of the foregoing specification of my improvement in pruning-hooks I hereunto subscribe' my name, in the presence rof' subscribing witnesses, this 11th day` of June, 1870. HENRY W. BLACK. u Witnesses: f A

GEORGE W. MYRE,

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